Table 1.

Stomach tissue sample descriptions.

Case	Tissue Type	Tissue Dry Weight (mg)	Sex	Age	Tumor Size	Lymph Nodes	Metastasis	Prognosisa	Histologyb
1	Normal	0.694	M	65
2	Normal	0.693	F	63
3	Normal	1.53	M	72
4	Normal	45.0	M	35
5	Normal	59.0	M	43
6	Gastric adenoma	1.56	F	72					Tubular adenoma, Low grade
7	Gastric adenoma	1.48	M	59					Tubular adenoma, Low grade
8	Gastric adenoma	0.541	F	68					Tubular adenoma, Low grade
9	EGC	2.97	M	71	T1b	Negative	Negative	Alive	Adenocarcinoma (MD)
10	EGC	17.9	F	57	T1a	Negative	Negative	Alive	Adenocarcinoma (WD)
11	EGC	3.00	F	75	T1a	Negative	Negative	Alive	Adenocarcinoma (MD)
12	AGC	0.263	M	72	T4a	Positive	Negative	Alive	Adenocarcinoma (MD)
13	AGC	26.3	M	75	T4a	Positive	Negative	Dead	Signet ring cell carcinoma
14	AGC	88.3	M	59	T4	Positive	Negative	Alive	Adenocaricnoma (PD)
15	AGC	4.29	F	72	T2	Positive	Negative	Alive	Adenocaricnoma (MD)
16	AGC	44.5	M	35	T3	Positive	Negative	Alive	Adenocaricnoma (PD)
17	AGC	43.4	M	43	T1	Negative	Negative	Alive	Adenocaricnoma (PD)

^aState of patient 2 years or longer after biopsy was taken

^bPD, MD, WD = poorly, moderately and well defined tumors